Pictures of Christmas 2007
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| Christmas Past |
| My mom recently scanned in some
pictures from my childhood and sent them up to me. Although a
few were from Halloween, most of the pictures were of Christmas
Past (or snow!). Have a look at a couple of Christmas mornings
when I was a child. All of these are MouseOver CloseUp
Specials too!! |
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| baby leatherman! |
mIkIE's first car |
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Mom, Grand Daddy, mIkIE, Doug |
mIkIE owns a garage now |
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| My Dad Doug (and an ugly tree!) |
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| mIkIE, Donny and Jon on Christmas
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| Each Christmas morning, our mom
stood behind the door, watching and waiting to snap a picture
showing our looks of joy and surprise as we first saw our gifts.
However, she usually snapped the picture too soon (or we were
running towards the loot too quickly!), and all we saw were big
floating spots from being blinded by the camera flash. ROFL |
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| Christmas Trees &
Villages |
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Our old Christmas tree (actually
it's Jim's old tree that he passed down to me while I was at the
old house) is finally just too dead to be used. Luckily, DO go a
new artificial tree this year and passed her old tree to us to
use for the holidays. |
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I have some Christmas decorations set out this Christmas. Behind me in the my webcam pix
you should be able to see Santa's house and sleigh ready to
take-off on the big night.
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| Of course, DO has her two villages
set up now too. The village on top of the entertainment center
is very interesting to look at, as many of the buildings have
lighted interior scenes. |
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| Both of her villages look adorable
with the room lights turned off |
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| That's Jim reflected in the pix
above and me in the pix below! |
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| Christmas Cookies |
| DO couldn't find any elves to help
with her cookies, but she did get a gang of girls to assist in
creating the Christmas goodies. Angie G, Kayle, Becca, and Angie
worked hard icing and decorating. We only did cutout cookies
this first weekend. |
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| During the following week, just DO
and I baked and iced a batch of pumpkin cookies. |
| During the second weekend of the month, we did
batches of Orange Drop Cookies (puffy orange cookies covered in
a zesty orange icing) and Buried Cherry Cookies (chocolate
cookies baked with a cherry in the center and then covered in a
layer of chocolate icing) |
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| Several pans of Buried Cherry Cookies |
Looks like someone did some
"taste testing" on these pans of cookies |
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| Christmas Back Home |
| As they have done for
many years now, my family gathered over at my brother's house to
celebrate the holiday. |
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It's nice being able
to see how everyone enjoyed their get-together. I did
notice something through the pictures my mom sent - Dennis
didn't move.
It looks like he grabbed a good end of the couch and was comfy
through the festivities.
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Jon must have had the
same idea as Dennis though, because I noticed that Jon looked
pretty comfortable on the other couch.
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| Jon, Don, Angie, Lisa |
Nana is looking pretty good for 90! |
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| Speaking of Nana, not
only does she still look good but she's still pretty smart and
sneaky - but not quite sneaky enough since Mom got this picture.
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| Christmas Eve with Friends |
| We had quite a stack of presents
waiting to go over to DO's on Christmas Eve to pass out to the
family. |
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DO had two tables full of cookies
and candies from which to create everyone's "Goodie Box" |
| Jim and Becca get
presents together to be passed out |
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| A mutual friend of
ours, Mary K, gave DO an early present that has been up for a
few days - this lighted wreath with a tiny teapot and cups set.
DO seems surprised to see that we got her a boxful of
NON-Kincaid puzzles. |
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| Christmas Gifts |
| I got new cookies sheets, and two
sets of containers (to fill up with all those goodies I put in
the muffins
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along some other kitchen gadgets. Also I received quite a nice
selection of clothes, including jeans, flannel shirt, sweat
shirt and pants, scarf and hat, slippers, and a new fuzzy robe. |
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| December, 2007 |
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